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| Keywords: The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Flee.jpg Artwork Q19911726 Creator Claude Lorrain The Trojan women set fire to their ships in an effort to end years of wandering after the fall of Troy The clouds and rain in the distance presage the storm sent by Jupiter at Aeneas's request to quench the blaze Claude noted in his Liber Veritatis that the picture was painted in Rome for Girolamo Farnese The learned prelate who returned to the city in 1643 must have chosen this episode from Virgil's Aeneid V 604 �710 to allude to his years of itinerant service as papal nuncio combating Calvinism in remote Alpine cantons of the Swiss Confederation ca 1643 Oil on canvas cm 105 1 152 1 institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history Girolamo Farnese Rome about 1643 �d 1668 ; Lord Radstock London until 1823; sold to Robarts ; Abraham Robarts London 1823 �60 ; the Robarts family London 1860 �1955; sold to Agnew ; Agnew London 1955; sold to MMA credit line Fletcher Fund 1955 Signed lower right on rock Clavdio / ROMA reportedly; no longer legible accession number 55 119 http //asteriskpix blogspot com/2010/07/trojan-women-set-fire-to-their-fleet html 110000341 The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet c1643 Claude Lorrain jpg Metropolitan Lorrain Tempest jpg Claude Lorrain - Marine with the Trojans Burning their Boats - WGA04985 jpg PD-old-100-1923 Marine mythological paintings by Claude Lorrain French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 17th-century paintings of events of the Trojan War 1643 oil on canvas paintings in the United States 1643 paintings from France 17th-century sailing ships in paintings People at the beach in art | ||||
